Here we go, chapter 4.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh in any way, shape, or form.

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"All through Nature, you will find the same law:

First the need, then the means."

-Robert Collier.

Yeah, I've heard things about the Society of Light and their duelists, usualy dangerous duelists with unusual deck strategies like B.E.S monsters, quiz monsters, Frog monsters and the like.

One duelist that sort of stands out in my mind is the lawyer X, his strange deck that specialized more in forcing the opponent's deck than anything else.

Now, I'm facing an Orichalcos duelist that uses a similar deck.

I hope I can win, because this strategy can be hard to beat, when used right.

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CHAPTER 4:

STATE OF DESTRUCTION

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The limo pulls up in front of the Downtown Marriot Hotel, a rather tall building a few blocks away from the Water Tower Plaza.

Marie walks inside to secure their rooms while everyone else waits outside.

"Well, we just gotta wait until Marie gets back," Wendy says.

"Is it really a good idea to be out at this time? I mean, the Orichalcos could send another duelist after us," Ariel points out.

"We're not safe as long as we're in the city, and with that dome in place, we aren't going anywhere soon," Renee says, leaning against the side of the building. "The Orichalcos is ensuring that we are unable to leave the city, and I doubt that anything short of an Earthquake would shatter the dome thats over the city, and I don't even know if anyone has noticed other than us."

Then, a knife hits the wall right next to Renee's head, and she pries it out, the knife is impaling a Guardian Elma card.

"Someone's trying to intimidate me..." she mutters.

"Consider it an issue of a challenge," a voice in front of them says.

Standing there is a tallish man with sharp features, and curled dark brown hair. He is wearing a finely pressed suit, and carries an Orichalcos Duel Disk on his arm.

"I am Lucient, chief legal council of Paradias, and I have orders to duel you, the daughter of Rafael, Renee Lords!" Lucient says, pointing at Renee.

"All right, fine, lets duel," Renee says, activating her duel disk, and Lucient does the same.

"I'll go first," Lucient says, and draws. "And I'll play, the Seal of Orichalcos!" He says, and the seal lowers down from the sky, as it brands itself onto Lucient's forehead. "I'll place one card face down, and set one monster in defense mode to end my turn," he says, and waits for Renee to draw to interrupt. "I pay 1000 life points to activate the trap card, Monster Register, but we'll get to that soon enough, take your turn," he says, and a monsterous cash register appears as his life points fall to 7000.

Renee draws a card, and glances at Lucient. Okay, he doesn't have any more face down cards for me to worry about, but I don't have a way to summon my monsters, oh well, this will have to do, she thinks. "I activate my Guardian Treasure spell card," she says, and discards her hand before drawing two cards. "And summon my Back-Up Guardna (0/2200), in defense mode!" She says, and the purple demon appears, crouching in defense mode.

"Hold it, you activated the effect of my Monster Register!" Lucient says, and the cash register shows a 4, and a tongue flies out, taking away 4 cards off of Renee's deck.

Crap, Guardian Grarl was in there, Renee thinks. "I'll just equip my Guardna with Heart of Clear Water, and end my turn," she says.

Lucient draws. "I summon this monster, my Trap Sloozer (800/1300+500)!" He says, and a spider-like machine monster appears, as the seal is branded onto it, the monster register sends out its tongue, and snatches 4 cards from the top of Lucient's deck. "But from now on, thanks to my monster, I don't have to lose any more cards, I proceed with my turn by placing two cards face down, and its your move."

Renee draws two cards. Okay, it looks like this guy has a deck similar to that duelist that worked for Sartorious when the Society of Light attacked Duel Academy. Maybe if I can remember what kind of cards X had, I can find a way around this guy's combos, she thinks, and looks her two cards over. "I'll use the equip spell Gravity Axe-Grarl!" She says, and the giant axe appears in the demon's hands. "And I'll play Monster Reborn, to bring back my Guardian Grarl!" She says, and the muscular Dinosaur man appears, and the register grabs 6 cards off the top of Renee's deck. "I'll switch my Axe to Grarl, and have him attack your Trap Sloozer!" Renee commands.

"Objection, go trap card, Threatening Roar, this will prevent you from attacking this turn!" Lucient counters.

"Fine, your move," Renee says, glancing at her deck, which was left with 22 cards.

Lucient draws. "I'll set this monster in defense mode, and end my turn," he says.

Renee draws. "Guardian Grarl, attack his face down monster now!" She commands, and the dinosaur guardian smashes through the face down monster...

Only to reveal a rocky monster with two eyes.

"That was my Level Pod, and when you flip him, we shuffle our monsters back into our decks, and draw cards equal to the total level of the monsters we shuffled into our decks," he says, and shuffles his cards in, then draws 6.

Renee does the same and draws 10, reducing her deck to 14 cards.

"And now my Level Pod's other effect activates, if you haven't drawn one of the cards you shuffled into your deck, you lose your hand," Lucient says.

"Too bad, I drew my Back-Up Guardian," Renee says with a yawn.

"And my cards go to the graveyard," Lucient says, discarding the cards he drew. "And since one of them was my Luring Light Level 4, I can special summon my Trap Sloozer (800/1300 + 500) to the field!" He says, and the spider-like machine appears. "And now, I activate my Heavy Slump trap card, so you have to discard cards from your hand until you have only two."

Renee groans, and discards most of the cards in her hand. Man, and I had a lot of good cards in there, she thinks.

"Okay, this seriously can't be legal!" Darren shouts.

"I wish," Marie says, shaking her head solemnly. "Regretfuly this particular deck strategy, while being seriously underhanded, is a perfectly legal type to use. Lets only hope that Renee has some good cards left, otherwise she just might lose the duel."

"Your move, Lucient," Renee says with a groan.

Lucient draws. "I activate Gravekeeper's Servant, so if you manage to attack, you lose the top card off your deck. And then I will set one monster in defense mode, and call it a turn," he says.

Renee draws two, and one of them glows golden, and glances at her cards, then nods, she knew what she had to do, realizing that her deck is down to 13 cards. She looks behind her, and Guardian Aitos, who is standing behind her, gives her a nod. "All right, I activate the spell card Soul Release, and remove 4 monsters from my own graveyard..." She says, taking 4 cards out of her graveyard. "And now I summon Back-Up Guardna back in attack mode!" She says, and the purple demon appears again, then 4 cards are grabbed off of her deck by the monster register.

"You might as well give in, you only have 9 cards left in your deck, and nothing you have can stop me from taking them!" Lucient says.

"Hmm, well I activated Card of Sanctity!" She says, and draws 5 cards, while Lucient draws 6. "And now I activate Guardian Revelation, this flips all your monsters face-up when I have 4 Guardian Monsters removed from the game, and no effects are activated!"

A Morphing Jar is flipped up.

"Too bad, after that move, if I had attacked, you would have won, but no such luck. Now I activate Lightning Vortex!" She continues, discarding a card, and lightning rains down on Lucient's field, destroying Trap Sloozer and Morphing Jar. "And now, I play Shield and Sword, so my demon's attack is now 2200. And I activate the Card of Divinity known as D.D Guardian Return, by removing 4 equip cards in my graveyard, I can summon 4 Guardian Monsters from my remove from play slot, no matter what!" She says, taking out a Gravity Axe-Grarl, Butterfly Dagger-Elma, Rod of Silence-Kay'est, and Holy Sword-Aitos. "So lets welcome to the field first Guardian Grarl (2500/1200)..."

The muscular dinosaur man appears.

"Guardian Elma (1300/1200)..."

The female guardian carrying a dagger appears.

"Guardian Kay'est (1000/1800)..."

"And Guardian Aitos!" She finishes, and the woman wearing native american clothing appears.

"What? Oh no, that's enough to finish me off right now!" Lucient says in shock.

"You have comited many atrocaties for the sake of the Orichalcos, this court of Guardians finds the defendant, Lucient, guilty of all charges, Guardians, finish him!" Renee commands, and the 4 guardians charge, striking at Lucient with their respective attacks.

Lucient doesn't say a word, just colapses when the seal closes in on him.

Renee doesn't say anything, she just gathers her cards up, takes a room key from Marie, and heads into the hotel.

This is for you dad, you may not have resisted the Orichalcos, but I sure will, she thinks to herself.

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Guardian Revelation

Spell Card

Image of Guardian Aitos casting a bright light. This card can only be activated when you have 4 monsters with "Guardian" in their name removed from the game. When this card is activated, all face down monsters are flipped face up, and no effects are activated.

D.D Guardian Return

Spell Card/Card of Divinity

Image of Guardian Aitos decending upon a barren wasteland, blessing a fallen soldier. When this card is activated, remove up to 5 equip cards in your graveyard from the game, and special summon monsters with "Guardian" in their name equal to the number of cards removed from the game, that are in the RFP slot. In the end phase after this card is activated, remove all monsters summoned by this effect from the game.

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Sorry it was so short and I took so long, but I tried.

Next, Marie steps up to the plate against a carachter from Yu-Gi-Oh GX, or at least part of him. Can she win against the Kaiser's Dark Side? Find out in, "Darkest Before the Dawn."